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...Saddam Hussein [Dec. 22]. His arrest should sound a warning to other dictators. The world has become united in not tolerating human-rights abuses. Tyrants like Charles Taylor and Slobodan Milosevic have been forced out of power. A stern warning bell must be ringing in Robert Mugabe's ear. With events like Saddam's capture taking place almost live on TV, there is nowhere to hide anymore. Hans C. Steyn Pretoria...
...long after I realized this, I began to approach my day-to-day conversations with an observer’s ear. As I talked with my friends, my families and my classmates, I began to take mental notes as to the shape of each conversation: who initiated discussion, who asked questions, who tended to talk more, what topics we pursued and which ones we avoided. There was an incredible variety: some people, I got the feeling, wouldn’t disagree with me even if I got their name wrong; others plowed straight away into lengthy arguments over subjects that...
...much working in his laboratories as he is having fun. He perks up with boyish glee whenever he finds some reflection of his technology in nature--in the cantilever-like tactile sensilla of ants, for instance, or the clusters of sensory hairs in the human inner ear." We believe that when you read about the Innovators this week and in the months ahead, you'll share in a taste of that same joy of discovery...
Today Le Carre is hale, white-haired and vigorous. He has a hearing aid discreetly tucked in each ear, but he is otherwise undiminished. His speaking voice is patrician in tone (he was once, briefly, a tutor at Eton), and he quotes fluently from the annals of military historythe British in Suez, the CIA in Iran, the Abkhazian War, obscure, half-forgotten intelligence scandalsbut he is also an almost unnervingly gifted mimic. Over the course of an afternoon, he does, among others, the author James Jones, a snooty French photographer, Truman Capote and Mel Brooks' 2,000-year...
...Source staffer says, "It's insane for a rap magazine to antagonize the No. 1 rapper the way we have. I can't believe Dave would be doing this if Benzino wasn't in his ear all the time." Mays says, "We're in a no-win situation with conflict of interest, but what do you want me to do about it? Benzino is like a brother, and I'm not going to stop being with him." The war with Eminem has had real costs. Interscope Records--home of Eminem, 50 Cent and Dr. Dre--has pulled its ads from...